Best Practices

As you build with Twitter, the following resources will help you to create a safe and delightful experience for our mutual users.

• Security
• Internationalization
• Profile Images and Banners
• Twitter Brand Resources
• Twitter Certified Program
• Character Counting
• t.co links

Other Resources

In addition to the resources above, we’ve collected other best practices from around the web.

On using API v1.1

• Using API v1.1 with the SignPost library for Scala or Java
• Streaming data from Twitter using the 1.1 Search API

On OAuth

• Apigee’s OAuth: the Big Picture
• Using Twitter API with LIFT, Scala, and Twitter4J
• How Klout is Harnessing the Twitter Firehose to Keep Pace with Their Growing User Base
• Tweeting with Node.js

On Rendering Tweets

• Create a Twitter Feed with Attached Images from Media Entities using Javascript.

On Counting Tweets

• Littlest Twitter Term Counter (there ever ever was). @isaach’s command-line one-liner for effectively counting interesting tweets from the Streaming API.

On Sentiment Analysis

• Twitter Sentiment Analysis Using Python and nltk by Laurent Luce

Using Twitter on your website

• Tweet Buttons for Blogger

On gathering & analyzing data

• Visualizing the Twitter Social Graph: getting the data
• Python, Twitter statistics and the 2012 French presidential election
• Understanding the Reaction to Amazon Prime Air (Or: Tapping Twitter’s Firehose for Fun and Profit with pandas) by @ptwobrussell